Why in front of the chest of Buddha Shakyamuni has a swastika And what is the meaning of the swastika? And do not understand why the swastika sometimes have the right rotation direction, sometimes the left rotation direction?VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.

 Swastika is one of 32 good generals of Buddha. This is an expression of Buddha's merit. The reason it applies to Buddha's chest is to speak of the full enlightenment meaning of Buddha. In the center of the chest is the symbol of the Middle Way, not stuck on either side, beyond treatment. 

In terms of its meaning, according to the Hue Quang Buddhist Dictionary explained, it means that the wall of auspicious or auspicious. As for the rotation to the right, the left is not uniform, also according to Hue Quang Buddhist Dictionary explained as follows: 

“The swastika, (please draw the swastika on top left here) was a sign of goodness in ancient India. In addition to India, Persia and Greece all have this emblem, often considered to represent the sun, lightning, fire, and flowing water. 

In ancient India, Buddhism, Brahmanism, Jainism used this word. Initially, the Indians thought that this inscription was the twisted hair in the chest of Brahma, Bhikkhu servitude (Skt: Visnu), sandblast iron sand (Skt: Krsna) and generally considered this a sign of goodness. healed, pure, full. In Buddhism, the swastika (turning on the left side) is a good general in front of the Buddha's chest and the Ten Bodhisattva Bodhisattvas, later gradually becoming a symbol of Buddhism. 

There used to be many theories about swastika. About Han translation of swastika, Cù ma la cross and Huyền Trang translated as "Đức", Mr. Bodhi saved the translation as swastika, indicating the meaning of full merit. And in Song Cao Tang Story 3, it is said that if the swastika (the upper rotation is to the left), the translation is thousands, it is not the translation but the sound. But the sound of the word Srivatsalaksana was not originally included in the Sutta, it was not until 639 that Vo Tac Thien set it up, read it ten thousand times, and thought that this word had meaning in the union of all the good things. But the swastika (upper left) is originally a symbol, not a word. The reason for this is that the ancient reading of thousands of characters on one hand is due to custom, the most common is the mistake when translating from Sanskrit to Han. Because of the Sanskrit word Laksana, the sound transliteration is Lean, meaning General; on the other hand, the Sanskrit word aksara translates as Evil Assassin, meaning Self. Perhaps the two sounds Laksana and aksara are nearly the same so their meanings are mixed. Saying this way, the swastika (upper left) should be read as a general, (ten thousand generals) in line with the original Sanskrit meaning.

Since ancient times, the swastika has had 2 cases on the left and on the right. For Hinduism, most use the swastika (the rotation to the left) to signify the male deity and the swastika (the rotation to the right) to denote the goddess of God. For Buddhism, there is an ancient tower still in Deer Park, the word on the tower is all the swastika, (with the rotation to the right) this tower is an architectural structure of King Asoka, built to commemorate where in the past Buddha was already in samadhi. 

In Tibet, Lama Buddhists often use the swastika (with the rotation to the left side). In China, there have been both ways. Hue Lam Am Nghia and Cao Ly Dai Kinh Kinh all advocated the swastika (the rotation to the left), the Japanese Tripitaka also imitated and used the swastika (the rotation to the right), but 3 copies of the Sutra Pitaka in the Song, Nguyen and Minh dynasties, all use the swastika (the direction is rotated to the right), the division of the text to the left and the right is mainly due to different positions. 

In the Sutta there are many places that say "turn to the right", the white hair between the ends of the eyebrows also flexibly rotates to the right, just like when worshiping Buddha, the Bodhisattva also has to go to the right, so the word "Pivoting to the right" has become a certain theory, but in the end, the swastika to the right or to the left is still a clue causing debate. If the swastika is placed in front of us, looking at the swastika from our stand, turning to the right will become the swastika (the rotation to the right); but if you say the word itself, the swastika (the rotation to the right) is in accordance with the direction of rotation to the right. END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.25/6/2020.